Lexicon :: Strong's H5081 - nāḏîḇ

“Take up an offering among you for the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring this as the LORD’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;

Both men and women came; all who had willing hearts brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry ​— ​everyone who presented a presentation offering of gold to the LORD.

The princes dug the well;

the nobles of the people hollowed it out

with a scepter and with their staffs.

They went from the wilderness to Mattanah,

He raises the poor from the dust

and lifts the needy from the trash heap.

He seats them with noblemen

and gives them a throne of honor.[fn]

For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s;

he has set the world on them.

“Here are the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of God’s house. Every willing person of any skill will be at your disposal for the work, and the leaders and all the people are at your every command.”

Hezekiah concluded, “Now you are consecrated[fn] to the LORD. Come near and bring sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings to the LORD’s temple.” So the congregation brought sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings, and all those with willing hearts brought burnt offerings.

He pours out contempt on nobles

and disarms[fn] the strong.

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house? ”

and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in? ”

who says to a king, “Worthless man! ”

and to nobles, “Wicked men! ”?

The nobles of the peoples have assembled

with the people of the God of Abraham.

For the leaders[fn] of the earth belong to God;

he is greatly exalted.

Restore the joy of your salvation to me,

and sustain me by giving me a willing spirit.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,

he pours contempt on nobles

and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

in order to seat them with nobles —

with the nobles of his people.

It is better to take refuge in the LORD

than to trust in nobles.

Do not trust in nobles,

in a son of man,[fn] who cannot save.

“by me, princes lead,

as do nobles and all righteous judges.[fn]

Eloquent words are not appropriate on a fool’s lips;

how much worse are lies for a ruler.

It is certainly not good to fine an innocent person

or to beat a noble for his honesty.[fn]

Many seek a ruler’s favor,

and everyone is a friend of one who gives gifts.

for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here! ”

than to demote you in plain view of a noble.[fn]

I didn’t know what was happening to me.

I felt like I was

in a chariot with a nobleman.[fn]

How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess![fn]

The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,

the handiwork of a master.

Lift up a banner on a barren mountain.

Call out to them.

Signal with your hand, and they will go

through the gates of the nobles.

A fool will no longer be called a noble,

nor a scoundrel said to be important.

But a noble person plans noble things;

he stands up for noble causes.